Maduro Denies Hezbollah Ties, Mocks Pompeo's Charge As "Proven Lies"

One day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Hezbollah was "active" and operating inside of Venezuela, embattled President Nicolas Maduro responded in a televised speech in Caracas slamming Pompeo's allegation which had also hinted at Iranian connections as "lies that have been proven false."

According to Maduro, “Hezbollah is a legal political party within Lebanon’s political life. Hezbollah is primarily a political party, with ministers, deputies, and elected officials.”

“We do not have, nor have we had any political relations with the Hezbollah political party. There are many Lebanese living in Venezuela,” he continued during the Friday statement, as translated by Al-Masdar News journalist Renato Velez. Acknowledging the historic roots of Arab communities in Latin America and Venezuela, he continued, “Long live the Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian Arab colonies in Venezuela.”

“The U.S. will continue to spread lies – lies that have been proven false. The Lebanese in Venezuela have political freedom and Venezuela, in order to defend itself, does not need cells of anyone in the world. We will defend ourselves,” he added.

He was responding specifically to Pompeo's Wednesday night interview with Fox Business wherein Pompeo implied the Maduro government was allowing the US-designated terror group to have a base of operations in Venezuela. We noted previously that what looked like an apparent failure to come up with an even remotely original narrative for another imminent American intervention, Pompeo asserted during the interview that "Hezbollah has active cells in Venezuela."

He said that "people don’t recognize that Hezbollah has active cells” in the country, adding that "the Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America. We have an obligation to take down that risk for America" he said further, as quoted by the Independent.

Ironically or not, when it comes to Hezbollah, which the US has long considered a terrorist organization, sanctions on people in Venezuela linked to the Iranian-backed Lebanese group have been imposed as far back as the George W Bush administration, seemingly in anticipation for just such an event.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-09/maduro-denies-hezbollah-links-mocks-pompeos-charge-proven-lies

The cabal is trying to make Hezbollah the new ISIS aka Al Qaeda aka Mujaheddin to blame them for everything

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: ‘Ultimately, I Don’t Think We Can Be This Neutral, Passive Platform Anymore’

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: ‘Ultimately, I Don’t Think We Can Be This Neutral, Passive Platform Anymore’

by Cassandra Fairbanks February 9, 2019 61 Comments

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed what many on the right have been screaming for years — that his platform is no longer neutral when it comes to politics.

Speaking to podcaster Sam Harris on February 5, Dorsey was grilled about the apparent bias against the right on the platform.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: ‘Ultimately, I Don’t Think We Can Be This Neutral, Passive Platform Anymore’

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed what many on the right have been screaming for years — that his platform is no longer neutral when it comes to politics.

Speaking to podcaster Sam Harris on February 5, Dorsey was grilled about the apparent bias against the right on the platform.

“Twitter reliably lands on one side of the political divide,” Harris said while questioning Dorsey about the ban of feminist Megan Murphy for tweeting “Men are not women,” while discussing transgender people. Her comment was not aimed at attacking any user individually.

Harris pointed out that she was banned while Louis Farrakhan’s tweet calling Jewish people “termites” remains on the platform.

“I don’t believe that we can afford to take a neutral stance anymore. I don’t believe that we should optimize for neutrality,” Dorsey responded.

Harris questioned the CEO about why they don’t just follow the First Amendment and ban illegal or violent speech — but allow debate and commentary as long as it is legal speech. Dorsey dodged the question, but claimed that their policies are based on “the spirit of” the First Amendment, Newsbusters reports.

Harris pointed out that while “alt-right” figures get rapidly banned for life, terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas are still active on the platform.

Going back to Murphy, Dorsey commented that “the case you brought up. I’m not sure what was behind that, but I certainly don’t believe it was that one tweet.”

“Ultimately, I don’t think we can be this neutral, passive platform anymore,” he said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-ultimately-i-dont-think-we-can-be-this-neutral-passive-platform-anymore/

Protester has hand RIPPED OFF during Yellow Vest march in Paris (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

The right hand of one of the Yellow Vest protesters has been blown off by a police grenade, according to an eyewitness, during Saturday's demonstrations in Paris.

RT video agency Ruptly's footage from the scene shows clouds of smoke billowing around the street as protesters and police clash outside the grounds of the National Assembly.

Video captured in the moments surrounding the horrific hand injury show a marked escalation between police and protesters. One police grenade was filmed exploding as protesters approached the device.

Eyewitness Cyprien Royer told RT France that he and the injured man were near the National Assembly, where a group of people dressed in black were trying to smash their way in.

“That guy was just observing. The police arrived and started throwing grenades,” Royer explained. “One grenade flew right under the guy’s feet, and he tried to instinctively push it away with his hand, he hit it, and the grenade went off.”

“He clutched onto us. We led him to the wall where there were no people. He was screaming, screaming, he was in an [awful] state," the witness added. "We called the ‘street medics,’ many came, they didn’t even understand at first he had his hand blown off.”

The Ruptly crew who filmed the horrific aftermath of the blast injury say they rushed over after hearing an explosion, and found the injured protester surrounded by paramedics.

Medics quickly surrounded the injured man to provide emergency treatment before he was rushed to hospital by firefighters.

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https://www.rt.com/news/451055-yellow-vest-france-protests/

Man Accused of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend Has Charges Related to Killing the Fetus Dropped — Thanks to NY’s New Abortion Law

A man charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend has had the charges related to killing her unborn baby dropped — thanks to New York’s new abortion laws.

Anthony Hobson, 48, was arrested on Friday for Sunday’s grisly murder of Jennifer Irigoyen, 35, who was five months pregnant. He is accused of brutally stabbing her to death — and deliberately killing her unborn baby.

Initially, Hobson was charged with murder and second-degree abortion by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. However, the abortion charge has now been rescinded, thanks to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new Reproductive Health Act.

A witness told the New York Post that Irigoyen was screaming, “He’s got a knife! He’s going to kill the baby!” as Hobson dragged her from her apartment building.

“The defendant is alleged to have shown no mercy and no regard for human life when he repeatedly and purposely plunged a knife into this expectant mother’s abdomen, torso and neck,” Brown said in a statement.

A DA spokeswoman told the New York Post that the abortion charge “was repealed by the Legislature, and this is the law as it exists today.”

The RHA legalized late term abortions beyond 24 weeks to protect the health of the mother and removed abortion from the criminal code.

The Post notes that the New York State Catholic Conference had warned that the new law “removes accountability for those who would harm unborn children outside the context of medical termination of pregnancy.” It is sad that they were proven correct so quickly.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/man-accused-of-murdering-pregnant-girlfriend-has-charges-related-to-killing-the-fetus-dropped-thanks-to-nys-new-abortion-law/

Venezuela’s self-proclaimed ‘president’ Guaido isn’t ruling out ‘authorizing’ US intervention

However ‘controversial’ such a move might be, the self-proclaimed US-backed ‘interim’ president of Venezuela has claimed he would not rule out the possibility of ‘authorizing’ a foreign military intervention to topple Maduro.

Guaido told AFP he would do “everything that is necessary” in order to “save human lives” – not ruling out the admittedly “controversial subject” of calling on foreign powers, and the United States in particular, to intervene militarily in Venezuela to remove Nicolas Maduro from power.

Opposition leader and parliament speaker Guaido proclaimed himself the only legitimate leader of Venezuela last month, and was immediately backed by Washington and its allies across Latin America and Europe.

Over the last two weeks, the US administration has made it clear that the military option is not off the table if Maduro refuses to voluntarily surrender his power and launch a ‘democratic’ political transition in Venezuela. Simultaneously, President Donald Trump’s administration has been urging Venezuelan officers to defect and support the opposition’s claim to power.

So far the Venezuelan armed forces have mostly kept loyal to Maduro, who has repeatedly claimed his compatriots are ready to repel any foreign-led aggression. The elected president has also repeatedly called on the opposition to come to the negotiation table instead of stirring up street protests and violence.

https://www.rt.com/news/451026-guaido-venezuela-military-intervention/

Pizzagate, Gamergate And Porn Stars: Adult Actress & Husband Arrested For Child Sex Abuse

Melinda Smith, stage name Mercedes Carrera, and her producer/director husband Jason Whitney have been arrested for abusing a young girl on January 31. The couple are accused of "inappropriate touching, oral copulation and digital penetration.”

The couple have pled not guilty regarding the 8 counts of sexual acts with a child under 10. According to detectives investigating the case, their Rancho Cucamonga apartment bedroom was outfitted like a film studio. The couple maintained that it was used as a webcam studio for broadcasting porn from their house.

In addition to the child sex abuse charges, methamphetamines and two loaded guns were found on the premises, detectives found "a large amount of evidence corroborating the victim's statement" related to the alleged crimes including inappropriate touching, oral copulation and digital penetration, which occurred over four months.

Mercedes Carrera has released a statement regarding the arrest of her and her business partner/husband:

Last week, my husband and I [were] arrested on charges of molesting my nine-year-old daughter, the absolute worst crime I can imagine. The charges were filed by her father, my ex-partner (a fundamentalist Christian). He is trying to take custody of our child from me. The charges are absolutely false and horrifying, and a last ditch effort to keep me from contact with my daughter for the rest of my life. I am so worried for her. Her life is shattered. Life will never be the same for any of us. We are struggling to make sense of this nightmare. This is a no-bail offense, so we are stuck in jail until we are cleared. We are facing decades in prison and do not even have money for a lawyer. We do not know what to do, but I ask that you all know me for who I am, and know that neither I nor my husband would ever, ever do anything like this to any child, let alone my beloved daughter.

Carrera was at one point involved in the Gamergate movement and was interviewed by the likes of Gavin McInnes and Paul Joseph Watson.

https://thegoldwater.com/news/43962-Pizzagate-Gamergate-And-Porn-Stars-Adult-Actress-Husband-Arrested-For-Child-Sex-Abuse

Knifeman held Swedish commuters hostage while stabbing people – police downplays incident

Swedish commuter train travelers between Uppsala and Stockholm were trapped in a train car with a knife-wielding man last monday.

According to testimony, the man used pepper spray inside the train car and ordered travelers to sit still while he stabbed two people.

The drama took place at 5 pm in a commuter train car filled with travelers between Uppsala Central Station and Arlanda Airport

When the doors were closed at Knivsta Station just before Arlanda Airport, a man pulled out a knife, Aftonbladet reports.

The knifeman must have been in dispute with two other men. He filled the closed train car with pepper spray or similar. According to testimonies, travelers began to cough and had difficulty breathing.

The dispute between the three men escalated into a stabbing where, according to testimony, “there was blood everywhere”.

“The stabber screamed that we would not call the police and that everyone would sit still. It was really scary”, a woman who traveled with the train said.

Even though the knifeman urged travelers not to call the police, alarm calls were received. And when the train arrived at Arlanda Airport, security guards were waiting on the platform to seize the man.

Police inspector Dana Karim, who leads the investigation of the knife attack, says that the knifeman is suspected of attempted murder and that he understands that it has been a shocking experience for the afternoon travelers, but adds that he considers the event to have been harmless.

“It is important to emphasise that we regard this as an isolated event. There is no indication that this has posed any danger to the public”, Karim explains.

Nothing was said about the identity of the perpetrator.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/knifeman-held-swedish-commuters-hostage-while-stabbing-people-police-downplays-incident/

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325 Migrants Apprehended in Single Group at Arizona Border

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 325 Central American migrants after they illegally crossed into Arizona Thursday near Lukeville.

Agents assigned to the Ajo Station came upon a large group of migrants who illegally crossed west of the Lukeville port of entry, according to Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials. The group consisted of 325 migrants from Central America.

Border Patrol camera surveillance of the area detected a possible campfire and dispatched a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew to the area. The aircrew spotted the group and directed ground-based Border Patrol agents to the scene.

The area where the migrant group crossed is protected only by vehicle barriers. There is no physical barrier to pedestrian crossings in this part of the border that is being exploited by human smugglers and large migrant groups from Central America.

The agents found the group huddled around a campfire during the freezing weather conditions of Thursday morning. Leaders of the group admitted they crossed the border illegally after being dropped off by multiple buses on Mexico’s Federal Highway 2 that runs parallel to the U.S. border.

The groups waited alongside the highway located about 50 yards from the Arizona border until the entire group assembled to cross the border at the same time. Smugglers in this area use this strategy to tie up all of the Border Patrol resources so they can move drugs or other high-value human customers across the border with little opposition, officials previously told Breitbart News.

The strategy appears to work as agents who would otherwise be patrolling the border were reassigned to provide security, care, and transportation for the 325 migrants. The agents utilized vans and trucks to transport the group 15 miles through very rough terrain to a staging area where buses could be utilized to take them the rest of the way for processing.

Agents said the group consisted of 150 juveniles. At least 32 traveled as Unaccompanied Alien Children, officials reported.

Medical specialists assigned to the Department of Homeland Security provided initial medical screening and treatment. They found two juveniles in need of immediate medical care. One of those, a 5-year-old reportedly has chicken pox while the second, a 12-year-old suffered a skin infection. Agents transported them to an area hospital for treatment.

“Illicit transnational criminal organizations exploit the vulnerability of foreign nationals with false promises of legal status and encourage dangerous border crossings, placing lives at risk,” CBP officials stated.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/02/08/325-migrants-apprehended-in-single-group-at-arizona-border/

>>5093045

>>5093105

Are you suggesting that Cernovich and Paul Joseph Watson are clean and it is by COINCIDENCE they are hanging around with pedophiles????

US Airstrikes Kill 15 in Somalia; General Warns Airstrikes ‘Not Enough’

AFRICOM claims al-Shabaab was trying to 'illegally tax' civilians

US African Command (AFRICOM) has reported that airstrikes against targets in Somalia have killed at least 15 “fighters” from al-Shabaab. Both strikes were in the Lower Shabelle region, with 11 killed Wednesday and 4 killed Thursday.

These are the latest in an ever-growing number of strikes inside Somalia. The US strikes have increased substantially in the past few years, and this year’s bombings have been even more frequent than the last year.

Following the strikes, AFRICOM head Gen. Thomas Waldhauser warned the Senate that despite the escalations, airstrikes were “not enough” to defeat al-Shabaab, and that Somalia’s local forces need to get more deeply involved in the conflict.

Local forces, of course, have been fighting al-Shabaab since the group’s foundation. This has long failed, with al-Shabaab remaining influential across much of Somalia, and ever-growing international intervention increasing the number of deaths, but having little else to show for their involvement.

https://news.antiwar.com/2019/02/08/us-airstrikes-kill-15-in-somalia-general-warns-airstrikes-not-enough/

Pompeo Attempts to Link Iran, Hezbollah to Crisis in Venezuela

WASHINGTON — During a Wednesday night interview with FOX Business host Trish Regan, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made several statements that raised eyebrows, such as claiming that Cuba had invaded Venezuela and “taken control” of the Venezuela’s “security apparatus” and that U.S. sanctions illegally imposed on Venezuela “aren’t aimed at the Venezuelan people.”

However, the most surprising claim Pompeo made in the interview was that Hezbollah and Iran were “active” in Venezuela, presenting a national security “risk for America.”

After accusing China, Cuba and Russia of interfering with U.S. efforts to install U.S.-funded opposition figure Juan Guaidó and oust current Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Pompeo made the following assertion:

People don’t recognize that Hezbollah has active cells — the Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America. We have an obligation to take down that risk for America and part of what we will talk about next week in Warsaw is certainly how we do that in South America and all across the globe.”

Pompeo’s mention of Hezbollah — a political party that has wide support in Lebanon’s democracy — has been noted by many outlets for seemingly providing a justification for the U.S.’ “obligation” to intervene in Venezuela, potentially with military force, by attempting to link the Venezuelan government to the U.S.’ Middle Eastern enemies. What has been entirely overlooked, however, is the fact that Pompeo also signaled a promise of military intervention “all across the globe.”

Indeed, if the U.S. intervenes in Venezuela with Hezbollah as the pretext, it sets a precedent for going to war where Hezbollah is actually located — Lebanon — as well as against Hezbollah’s most powerful regional ally and favorite Trump-era boogeyman, Iran.

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/70923/pompeo-attempts-to-link-iran-hezbollah-to-crisis-in.html

>>5092694 Mississippi's Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves took part in Old South-themed parties in college 'wore blackface

>>5092721 Arizona considers declaring porn a public health crisis

>>5092800 Les Moonves, Fired by CBS, Sets Up Shop in Hollywood

>>5092848 VER 400 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ON ORGAN TRANSPLANTS MAY BE TAINTED BY UNETHICAL ORGAN HARVESTING FROM CHINESE PRISONERS

>>5092870 Maduro Denies Hezbollah Ties, Mocks Pompeo's Charge As "Proven Lies"

>>5092891 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: ‘Ultimately, I Don’t Think We Can Be This Neutral, Passive Platform Anymore’

>>5092921, >>5092955 Protester has hand RIPPED OFF during Yellow Vest march in Paris

>>5092936 Man Accused of Murdering Pregnant Girlfriend Has Charges Related to Killing the Fetus Dropped

>>5092970 Venezuela’s self-proclaimed ‘president’ Guaido isn’t ruling out ‘authorizing’ US intervention

>>5093033 Trump Campaign Responds To Sen. Warren’s Presidential Announcement

>>5093045 Porn star and Husband arrested for child sex abuse, friends with Cernovich and PJW

>>5093335

you're wither a bot or a mossad bitch

No value at all just attack any opinion or post that doesn't support ZION